For the record, every major country is enagaged in Political Warfare against their enemies so I’ve said nothing controversial. Secondly, China is not inherantly bad or inherantly virtuous. They participate on the global stage just like everyone else, so you should ask yourself why you immediately dismiss China’s agency here. Finally, and most importantly, China’s approach to Political Warfare is laid out in the Three Warfares doctine, and has been well-documented. You can read more about it here if you’re really interested acting in good faith: https://sci-hub.ru/10.1080/01402390.2013.870071

If not, you can continue to label people who say things you don’t like as conspiracy theorists. Oh and I’m not a Democrat, I’m probably further to the left than most people on this app but I don’t worship or apologise for vast and powerful nation states. Whether that’s China or anyone else.

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That’s the perfect way to explain this

I think it’s important to make such arguments without neglecting to point out that some very real, very desperate people are counting on the assistance USAID currently provides. People will die because of this.

A much less evil way to handle this is to reroute the funds to some benign organisation who will carry out the existing functions of USAID. But that’s not what Musk is doing. There’s no nuance. Much like his first month at Twitter, he’s just taking a wrecking ball to the government and seeing what’s left standing. Unfortunately the largest imperialist arms of the US government (State Department, DoD) are still left standing, while the one that is currently relied upon by some of the most desperate souls on the planet has been destroyed.

It was no secret that USAID was an arm of the State Department and used as a smokescreen for CIA business. But that won’t matter to all the mothers who will watch their infants die because Musk pulled the plug with no warning

That’s literally what USAID was for. For spreading anti-communist, pro-capitalist, sentiment by feeding the needy. Until the world’s evilest richest man got rid of it and showed how nakedly corrupt the US political system is

Let’s not forget that China is actively engaged in political and information warfare against the West. Any hypocrisy they can point out will just contribute to the fracturing of alliances between the West and the rest of the world. So it very much benefits them, strategically and financially, to point out stuff like this. Not that I think the people of Gaza will care about the selfish reasons a superpower might have for speaking up for them

Read it so you don’t have to: It’s a troll.

Block and move on.

Pretty sure that’s an easter egg that Google put in. Like when you search ‘Alex Trebek’ and it says ‘Did you mean: who is alex trebek’

No but I’d like to. I’d unironically join a supportive Linux noob community. One where we can also complain without fear of reprisals

This is actually hilarious. It looks like the entire sub is just people posting anti-Linux memes and being downvoted to death

Neuralink beaming unskippable ads into your head

For Lemmy just replace racism with unsolicited Linux advice

What?? The last bullet point is literally the subject of the thread you’re on. The picture in this post is from Musk campaigning for the AfD which is a far-right German party that is well-known for being antisemitic. I can’t tell if you’re utterly clueless or trolling right now.

Which half? And please provide some examples.

If I ‘accidentally’ did a Nazi salute, as a non-Nazi I would spend the next week:

• Making clear that I do not agree with Nazis
• Rejecting praise from Nazis calling me ‘based’
• Not tweeting out a series of Nazi puns
• Not campaigning for a far-right anti-semitic German party

If I did the opposite of all these things it would be because I want everyone to know it was no accident. Anyone still saying ‘who knows what he means by any of it’ after this week is either a lying POS, bought and paid for, or just thick as a cement brick

Trump’s obsession with McDonald’s is too well-documented to be a PR stunt. He absolutely did eat his order, and every sycophant by his side would have followed suit

The CEO of Skype would agree

George Monbiot, a British journalist who has made a career of writing about the climate crisis

The difficulty is asking people to get started with this. People want to get to work/navigate as quickly as possible to where they need to be, they don’t want to be figuring it out. Social media can be janky and you’ll be patient, but if you’re late for something because you’re struggling to adjust to an app you’re more likely to go back to Google/Apple Maps

Kanye still gets features and collaborators despite his Nazi turn. All the major rappers associated with him chose silence over condemnation. Biggie would most likely make the same choice with Diddy